President-elect Joe Biden will have his work cut out for him.
The United States added 126,480 new coronavirus cases on Friday, according to data released Saturday by the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. It’s the third day in a row that the U.S. has set a daily record, bringing the total number of infections in the country to more than 9.7 million. More than 236,000 have died.
Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have laid out a comprehensive plan to try to get the virus under control, including the creation of a pandemic testing board to produce and distribute tens of millions of tests, and a U.S. public health jobs corp to mobilize at least 100,000 Americans to help with contact tracing and protecting at-risk populations.
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